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Speaking of sleeping, I actually had a dream about Lockstin once. He introduced a new Lockemon: Neo Diglett and it's evolution Magtrio. They were a fire/ground type and lived inside the recently re-activated Cinnabar Volcano.
I actually started with Gen 1, but Johto is my favorite region of the first 4. Blue was my preferred version, Red was the copy I started over and over, and yellow was just a fun time. I actually had every version except Gold, Emerald, B2W2, X, OR, Sun, and USUM. Oh, and Green, obviously. Little me couldn't read Japanese (and big me still can only somewhat read katakana and recognize a few words or phrases mostly from Tokusatsu shows and anime.), but yeah.
What I like about like about the English Mineral Badge over the over the Japanese Steel badge is how it plays into the notion of Steel-types being newly discovered, and that Jasmine actually used to be a Rock-type gym leader before her ace Steelix evolved from an Onix.
Was going to say much the same. It plays into the idea that Jasmine's type speciality only recently changed and there hasn't been a lot of time to update the gym's branding. If I recall she doesn't even have any gym trainers when you battle her in the original games.
@@Arohan71: True, although since you have to climb the lighthouse first to meet her, it's arguable that the lighthouse trainers double as her gym trainers... at least mechanically, although the lack of trainers in her actual gym helps add to the narrative that the steel-type is too new for there to be other specialists.
@thatonegirlthatlikesylveon Considering Pryce dresses very beachy in GSC, while Chuck's fighting theme does work with an area by a Lake of Rage, it could be.
I always assumed that Chuck had recently taken over the gym from a water type gym leader, hence the waterfall in the gym. For some reason he could redesign the badge but not change its name. The previous (in-universe) design of the badge could also have been cyan.
That's a really nice headcanon. I'll take it too, thx, lol. He could resist the Water attacks w/ his Poliwrath, and fight back w/ Dynamic Punch, etc. Dojo takeovers sure were popular back in the day, huh? Could've also been a tangential reference to the thing about the previous Saffron Fighting Gym getting taken over by Psychics in gen 1.
Random suggestion, but since we are already analysing the badges, maybe also analyse the type symbols, like why swoshi represent grass with leaves while scavi uses actual grass
Ever since Gen 1, Grass was always represented with a leaf starting with the TCG. Then jump all the way to Pokemon Go, where ever type finally got it's own symbol to be used in the main line games. Grass was once again represented with a leaf with these new designs. Note that the Pokemon Go symbols for types are the same ones used for SwSh. But now fast forward to Pokemon BDSP where the symbols for the types were once again redesigned. This was where Pokemon finally decided to represent the Grass Type with grass finally to probably be more in line with the type's name. This is where SV got the symbols from to use BTW.
Y’know, I just realized. The mineral badge is the same shape as the boulder badge. Perhaps the badge itself is a reference to Brock’s? After all, her signature is steelix, the steel evolution of Brock’s signature onyx.
In regards to the Japanese name of the Storm Badge, ショック (Shock) can refer not only to the state of psychological shock but to physical shock (also called mechanical shock) as well. As in the sort of acceleration put on your car by a sudden force when you're on a bumpy road. You then use shock absorbers to stabilize the vehicle and lessen that acceleration. The same concept of shock is applicable to how one's body accelerates after the impact of the punch or kick of another. The name definitely doesn't translate well to English, but it sense conceptually. A more appropriate localization might be the Force Badge, maintaining the mechanical physics being referenced but also in regards to the physical force behind Chuck and his Poliwrath's Dynamic/Focus Punch, two high-damage moves.
Since Jasmine used to be a rock type trainer, maybe (at least in English) she just kept the badge name when she changed to steel type. The design would probably work for either type too.
If she used to be a Rock type Gym Leader, that would mean she had to change her badge after the Steel type was discovered, since it is called the Steel Badge in Japanese, which would imply that it used to be the Rock Badge or something like that.
@@Super_Top_Secret_Area Which is why I added the "at least in English" bit. Maybe she kept it the same in the English version but changed it in the Japanese. I'm not sure what it's called in other languages.
These are the German names of the badges: 1 The Zephyr Badge is called "Flügelorden", so wing badge 2 The Hive Badge is called "Insektenorden", so insect badge and it fits 3 The Plain Badge is called "Basisorden", so base badge (when I was little, Whitney´s Miltank brickwalled me, so I thought the badge is called that cuz you need a sturdy base to advance) 4 The Fog Badge is called "Phantomorden", so phantom badge 5 The Storm Badge is called "Faustorden", so fist badge 6 The Mineral Badge is called "Stahlorden", so steel badge (but after Avatar´s Toph I can accept mineral as a synonym for steel) 7 The Glacier Badge is called "Eisorden", so ice badge 8 The Rise Badge is called "Drachenorden", so dragon badge As always, German is pretty much on the nose with its naming Don´t know if that was useful or interesting to anyone, but I had fun remembering my first run through Johto
All accurate I have one objection though. Are you sure you accept "Mineral" as a equivalent of Steel due to Toph's actions of inventing Metalbending in Avatar? Don't you think that Guru Pathik's words "Even Metal is just a part of the Earth, it just was cleaned and refined a bit." affected you more there? Especially given it is superimposed over Toph's first tries from within the cage.
@@catriamflockentanz I mean probably, but both is fantasy so we don´t have to be suuuper exact with science, otherwise nothing would work out (for instance, water gun would have only 1 PP if the Pokémon is not close to water)
There's one more mention I like to give Whitney about her Plain Badge. Her design is inspired by baseball players, so her badge could also be a baseball field(specifically the area which is designated by the four plates). A field is also another word for plains.
It makes sense as Japan is as big into baseball as the U.S. and Whitney wasn't the only Pokémon anime character into the sport. Remember Casey and her love for yellow Pokémon with stripes?
@Gnoggin there's something that I think you may have missed about the Storm Badge. It's not storm as in weather, it's storm as in storming the gates aka engaging the enemy. Hence why it's the fighting type gym badge.
I feel like storm being with fighting is closer to like, how storming someone means charginf at it with force. Like storming the castle. And maybe shock being like putting things into shock, like when you hit things so hard they go into shock or somethin
Gold Version and a GameBoy?! NOSTALGIA HITS HARD LIKE A HITMONCHAN! Never really made the connection to the towns in Johto and trees before either. I was pretty young, so I didn't about that. And playing HeartGold, just more nostalgia. Definitely looking forward to my favorite region badges next!
Spinarak, Ledyba, and Heracross would have been a good gym. Heracross's four times weakness to flying would keep it from being too too op for a second gym. It would probably be easier than Scyther, since Scyther is pretty fast for that point in the game but Heracross is slower
@@christinefarrell6438 And it would´ve been a team with only new Johto Pokémon (you also would´ve naturally encountered Heracross and the exclusive bug from the other game)
@@Luffy453 AND you can get Heracross in Azalea Town by head butting trees, the mechanic you learn in literally the next route, so it really just works!
Concept idea: What if each badge gives their owners a specific power related to the badge's design, name and pokemon type. Think the talismans form Jackie Chan's Adventures but not as op. Like the Fog Badge can turn you into a mass of fog, or summon one, and the knuckle badge can either make your punches really powerful or make you able to do multiple punches in quick speed like a jojo stand.
A "Mineral" Badge actually still makes sense since she's said to have previously been a Rock type specialist. Other gyms have also changed types without changing the badge; it happened twice in Gen 2, once in Gen 3, and twice again in Gen 5. Gen 7 doesn't have gyms but still changed specialists
As of this ep I've realized why i clicked so immediately with your videos. Between the steel bolt turning bit and the dragon thing, you're basically Steve from Blue's Clues for niche pokemon content This is a good thing, to be clear. It makes me smile
I always assumed the Storm badge was called that because of how sometimes someone's anger is described as _stormy,_ and anger/temper often leads to violence? It made sense to me. :D
The Plain badge looks exactly like a traffic sign 😆 😂 And it technically fits since the main road goes straight through town with smaller intersections that should stop for the main road, just like the traffic sign 😆
Something else about Whitney, she was originally supposed to have a baseball theme, with an aipom on her team, I like to think the diamond shape calls back to this a little
Still a very cool series idea. Something touched on at the end there is maybe looking into how the HMs/TMs rewarded from each gym may tie into the badge theme, if they do
So one thing you missed with the Mineral Badge, Jasmine was originally a Rock Type leader before the discovery of the Steel Type. So, thematically it being the Mineral Badge makes far more sense with this little caveat known.
Your description of Chuck's Storm Badge's name is completely off. Quoting Bulbapedia: "The Storm Badge's English name may be derived from the lucha libre wrestler Fray Tormenta-also the inspiration for Crasher Wake-whose name translates as "Friar Storm"."
Awesome video. I'm excited to hear you say you'll be continuing the series. Also, the Gen 2 cities are named after colors and plants, not colors and trees, as Violet, Azalea, and Goldenrod are flowers.
i kinda miss the way the badges had unique names since sword and shield its just "Insert Type name" badge the last original badge was the Iceberg Badge in XY 10 YEARS AGO
I'm shocked that Whitney early connection to baseball was not mention in this video. You know. With the badge essentially being a baseball plate. And her being shown with baseball gear in early artworks. And even know her design is still low key a baseball uniform. And Milktank turning into a ball.
I’m pretty sure I didn’t even realize that Kanto was apart of Crystal as a kid 😅 I was so engrossed in the new mechanics and the fact that I got to play as a girl
You should do a video explaining Miltanks lore! 😂 it's my fave Pokémon and I'm surprised you haven't already covered that Pokémon. I subscribed just to ask this❤
for the fighting gym I do also like the "shock badge" more.... cuz it just make me think of "shock and awe" as in being in shock and awe... OF THESE PECKS!!!
In universe the Olivine city gym used to be a rock type gym, and when you look at it like that the mineral badge makes sense, they just haven't changed it yet.
I normally put my phone down during the sponsor part of videos but watching yours keeps me entertained as I watch the entire video... Kudos to you for that 😁
Burgh's badge was the insect badge. Viola from Kalos had the bug badge, as well as Katy from Paldea, although I'm reluctant to count the generation 8 onwards gym leaders since as a whole badges are now named the same as the type.
The Storm badge or "Shock" badge might have to do with dynamic punch being in this gen for the first time! In Japanese versions, its called exploding punch. So it could be the shock of such explosive power.
I know this isn't about the Gym Leaders and just the badge, but it really blew my mind when I heard the word "Rigor Mortis" for the first time and thought "IS THAT WHY THE GHOST GYM LEADER WAS NAMED MORTY?!" Now I have same reaction today learning that Falkner's name is a pun on Falconer.
More or less. It's actually derived from the same root word "mort" which is French I believe for dead or death. That's where we also get words like mortician and mortuary.
at 0:57 he pulls the cartridge out and jumps implying he took it out while it was on, however with the original GameBoy he couldn't, there was a latch that filled the corner gap on the original cartridges that stopped you pulling it out while the system was on
Interesting ! In french, most of the name are similar, if not pure translation, such as : Le badge Zéphyr (Zephyr badge) Le badge Plaine (Plain badge) Le badge Brume (Fog badge) Le badge Minéral (Mineral badge) Le badge Glacier (Glacier badge) and finally, Le badge Lever (Rising badge) The meaning may be slightly different, but you get it, we have two different ones though, the bug and fighting ones The hive badge is called "Le badge Essaim" aka, swarm badge which...well, doesn't make much more sense I guess ? The storm badge is called "Le badge Choc" ! Which is literally...Shock badge ? Or Impact badge, which can carry the same water meaning in a way, but seems to suit more the fighting one, after all, when you get punched...you get shocked ! Or it does an impact ! Also looks a lot like Chuck ironically
Maybe a bit of a stretch but getting the Rising Badge from Clair, the Dragon type gym leader could be a nod to the classic Shoryuken move, which translates to "rising dragon fist"
Maybe, some older mirrors were made of metals like bronze from what I understand. Though it looks more like it's metal that's been refined out of the Boulder Badge, since it's the same shape and rocks often contain metals within them.
I saw someone mention badge names in German so get this: badges in French 1. Badge Zéphyr (same as English) 2. Badge Essaim (Swarm Badge) 3. Badge Plaine (plain as in a grass field, it doesn't have the other implications that Plain does in English) 4. Badge Brume (Haze Badge, pretty similar in meaning as Fog Badge tbh) 5. Badge Choc (Hit/Strike/Shock Badge) 6. Badge Minéral (same as English) 7. Badge Glacier (same as English) 8. Badge Lever (similar meaning to Rising Badge, lever -> the act of getting up or rising)
I guess Storm Badge could also be a sneaky reference to Lugia, since Lugia's dex states that it can cause 40-day lasting powerful storms by flapping its wings and Lugia tends to live in the ocean and given the location of the gym's town... Yes I know Lugia isn't a Fighting type but ya never know
One should take notice on how in the lore, it makes sense to call it mineral badge since the gym was formly a rock type gym before steel type was discovered.
Who else knew what a zephyr was by the time they got into Pokémon because they recalled Owl referring to the Blustery Day as that in Winnie the Pooh? It can't just be me, can it? There's no way everyone else missed Disney's biggest source of merchandise in its animated canon, right?! Also, gotta love how it only just hit on me that the Plain Badge's name has more than one meaning moments before you explained it. Never thought of it before, but the badge is surprisingly well designed for being so simple!
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For me it was Gold. I was into the Pokemon series in general with the cards and anime, but I didn't own an actual game until Gen 2.
Speaking of sleeping, I actually had a dream about Lockstin once. He introduced a new Lockemon: Neo Diglett and it's evolution Magtrio. They were a fire/ground type and lived inside the recently re-activated Cinnabar Volcano.
Whitney was originally a baseball player (her ace was gonna be Aipom), she still has the jersey. The badge looks like a baseball field
@@Metetto Sounds kinda prophetic. We shall see if your dream comes true, and I honestly hope it does because that would be so cool for you!
I actually started with Gen 1, but Johto is my favorite region of the first 4. Blue was my preferred version, Red was the copy I started over and over, and yellow was just a fun time. I actually had every version except Gold, Emerald, B2W2, X, OR, Sun, and USUM. Oh, and Green, obviously. Little me couldn't read Japanese (and big me still can only somewhat read katakana and recognize a few words or phrases mostly from Tokusatsu shows and anime.), but yeah.
What I like about like about the English Mineral Badge over the over the Japanese Steel badge is how it plays into the notion of Steel-types being newly discovered, and that Jasmine actually used to be a Rock-type gym leader before her ace Steelix evolved from an Onix.
It looks like a refined Boulder badge (brock's badge) without the internal lines.
I was just about to say this
Was going to say much the same. It plays into the idea that Jasmine's type speciality only recently changed and there hasn't been a lot of time to update the gym's branding. If I recall she doesn't even have any gym trainers when you battle her in the original games.
@@Arohan71: True, although since you have to climb the lighthouse first to meet her, it's arguable that the lighthouse trainers double as her gym trainers... at least mechanically, although the lack of trainers in her actual gym helps add to the narrative that the steel-type is too new for there to be other specialists.
@@Arohan71 At least in the remakes there are gym trainers they just don't fight because Jasmine just wants to thank you or something
To add on to the mineral badge, Jasmine was a rock specialist before switching to steel in canon, so mineral fits both rock & steel.
It's interesting how Cianwood and Mahoghany are almost like inverses in type-specialties/town names. Ice is a cyan, Fighting is a brick reddish.
@thatonegirlthatlikesylveon Considering Pryce dresses very beachy in GSC, while Chuck's fighting theme does work with an area by a Lake of Rage, it could be.
I always assumed that Chuck had recently taken over the gym from a water type gym leader, hence the waterfall in the gym. For some reason he could redesign the badge but not change its name. The previous (in-universe) design of the badge could also have been cyan.
That's a really nice headcanon. I'll take it too, thx, lol. He could resist the Water attacks w/ his Poliwrath, and fight back w/ Dynamic Punch, etc. Dojo takeovers sure were popular back in the day, huh? Could've also been a tangential reference to the thing about the previous Saffron Fighting Gym getting taken over by Psychics in gen 1.
Random suggestion, but since we are already analysing the badges, maybe also analyse the type symbols, like why swoshi represent grass with leaves while scavi uses actual grass
Ever since Gen 1, Grass was always represented with a leaf starting with the TCG. Then jump all the way to Pokemon Go, where ever type finally got it's own symbol to be used in the main line games. Grass was once again represented with a leaf with these new designs. Note that the Pokemon Go symbols for types are the same ones used for SwSh.
But now fast forward to Pokemon BDSP where the symbols for the types were once again redesigned. This was where Pokemon finally decided to represent the Grass Type with grass finally to probably be more in line with the type's name. This is where SV got the symbols from to use BTW.
"Swoshi" and "Scavi" broke my brain for a full minute at least. I don't think I've ever seen anyone abbreviate them like that before
Y’know, I just realized. The mineral badge is the same shape as the boulder badge. Perhaps the badge itself is a reference to Brock’s? After all, her signature is steelix, the steel evolution of Brock’s signature onyx.
She also was rock type until Onix evolved
In regards to the Japanese name of the Storm Badge, ショック (Shock) can refer not only to the state of psychological shock but to physical shock (also called mechanical shock) as well. As in the sort of acceleration put on your car by a sudden force when you're on a bumpy road. You then use shock absorbers to stabilize the vehicle and lessen that acceleration. The same concept of shock is applicable to how one's body accelerates after the impact of the punch or kick of another. The name definitely doesn't translate well to English, but it sense conceptually. A more appropriate localization might be the Force Badge, maintaining the mechanical physics being referenced but also in regards to the physical force behind Chuck and his Poliwrath's Dynamic/Focus Punch, two high-damage moves.
I like that Whitney's base also looks like a baseball diamond, linking back to when she was going to be a baseball player with Aipom as her ace!
Since Jasmine used to be a rock type trainer, maybe (at least in English) she just kept the badge name when she changed to steel type. The design would probably work for either type too.
If she used to be a Rock type Gym Leader, that would mean she had to change her badge after the Steel type was discovered, since it is called the Steel Badge in Japanese, which would imply that it used to be the Rock Badge or something like that.
@@Super_Top_Secret_Area Which is why I added the "at least in English" bit. Maybe she kept it the same in the English version but changed it in the Japanese. I'm not sure what it's called in other languages.
These are the German names of the badges:
1 The Zephyr Badge is called "Flügelorden", so wing badge
2 The Hive Badge is called "Insektenorden", so insect badge and it fits
3 The Plain Badge is called "Basisorden", so base badge (when I was little, Whitney´s Miltank brickwalled me, so I thought the badge is called that cuz you need a sturdy base to advance)
4 The Fog Badge is called "Phantomorden", so phantom badge
5 The Storm Badge is called "Faustorden", so fist badge
6 The Mineral Badge is called "Stahlorden", so steel badge (but after Avatar´s Toph I can accept mineral as a synonym for steel)
7 The Glacier Badge is called "Eisorden", so ice badge
8 The Rise Badge is called "Drachenorden", so dragon badge
As always, German is pretty much on the nose with its naming
Don´t know if that was useful or interesting to anyone, but I had fun remembering my first run through Johto
I liked it.
All accurate I have one objection though.
Are you sure you accept "Mineral" as a equivalent of Steel due to Toph's actions of inventing Metalbending in Avatar? Don't you think that Guru Pathik's words "Even Metal is just a part of the Earth, it just was cleaned and refined a bit." affected you more there? Especially given it is superimposed over Toph's first tries from within the cage.
@@catriamflockentanz I mean probably, but both is fantasy so we don´t have to be suuuper exact with science, otherwise nothing would work out (for instance, water gun would have only 1 PP if the Pokémon is not close to water)
Plain Badge be looking like a ("Vorfahrtsstraße") street sign. :D
@@Kolibieri I didn´t even see that :D
The Jack black Octagon reference at 9:32 with the “8 stunning sides” and the ”oh man” made my day
There's one more mention I like to give Whitney about her Plain Badge.
Her design is inspired by baseball players, so her badge could also be a baseball field(specifically the area which is designated by the four plates). A field is also another word for plains.
It makes sense as Japan is as big into baseball as the U.S. and Whitney wasn't the only Pokémon anime character into the sport. Remember Casey and her love for yellow Pokémon with stripes?
@Gnoggin there's something that I think you may have missed about the Storm Badge. It's not storm as in weather, it's storm as in storming the gates aka engaging the enemy. Hence why it's the fighting type gym badge.
That's not actually what it's based on, either.
I feel like storm being with fighting is closer to like, how storming someone means charginf at it with force. Like storming the castle. And maybe shock being like putting things into shock, like when you hit things so hard they go into shock or somethin
9:36
Most steel bolts like that typically have hexagonal (hex) heads, while the badge is an octagon.
They were so close too…
Hexagons are the bestagons after all.
Gold Version and a GameBoy?! NOSTALGIA HITS HARD LIKE A HITMONCHAN!
Never really made the connection to the towns in Johto and trees before either. I was pretty young, so I didn't about that. And playing HeartGold, just more nostalgia. Definitely looking forward to my favorite region badges next!
I’ve always been frustrated that Bugsy’s badge looks like a ladybug, but he doesn’t have Ledyba on his team
Or a Ledian.
Same, I always thought he would have a Ledyba and a Spinarak, instead of two cocoons that didn´t do much
Spinarak, Ledyba, and Heracross would have been a good gym. Heracross's four times weakness to flying would keep it from being too too op for a second gym. It would probably be easier than Scyther, since Scyther is pretty fast for that point in the game but Heracross is slower
@@christinefarrell6438 And it would´ve been a team with only new Johto Pokémon (you also would´ve naturally encountered Heracross and the exclusive bug from the other game)
@@Luffy453 AND you can get Heracross in Azalea Town by head butting trees, the mechanic you learn in literally the next route, so it really just works!
Concept idea:
What if each badge gives their owners a specific power related to the badge's design, name and pokemon type. Think the talismans form Jackie Chan's Adventures but not as op. Like the Fog Badge can turn you into a mass of fog, or summon one, and the knuckle badge can either make your punches really powerful or make you able to do multiple punches in quick speed like a jojo stand.
A "Mineral" Badge actually still makes sense since she's said to have previously been a Rock type specialist. Other gyms have also changed types without changing the badge; it happened twice in Gen 2, once in Gen 3, and twice again in Gen 5. Gen 7 doesn't have gyms but still changed specialists
As of this ep I've realized why i clicked so immediately with your videos.
Between the steel bolt turning bit and the dragon thing, you're basically Steve from Blue's Clues for niche pokemon content
This is a good thing, to be clear. It makes me smile
8:24 You could say the city's name is a port-manteau
There's a fighting move called Storm Throw, maybe the badge shares that sense of "storm" they use for the move
I always thought of Chuck's Storm Badge as like "storming the beach", Normandy, fighting
I'm loving this series about the badges
I always assumed the Storm badge was called that because of how sometimes someone's anger is described as _stormy,_ and anger/temper often leads to violence? It made sense to me. :D
I absolutely love these videos. They’re so easy for me to stay engaged and binge
The Plain badge looks exactly like a traffic sign 😆 😂
And it technically fits since the main road goes straight through town with smaller intersections that should stop for the main road, just like the traffic sign 😆
Something else about Whitney, she was originally supposed to have a baseball theme, with an aipom on her team, I like to think the diamond shape calls back to this a little
I got the mahogany reference the first time. So good to see it come up here.
Ikr
Same!
Still a very cool series idea. Something touched on at the end there is maybe looking into how the HMs/TMs rewarded from each gym may tie into the badge theme, if they do
So one thing you missed with the Mineral Badge, Jasmine was originally a Rock Type leader before the discovery of the Steel Type.
So, thematically it being the Mineral Badge makes far more sense with this little caveat known.
Your description of Chuck's Storm Badge's name is completely off. Quoting Bulbapedia:
"The Storm Badge's English name may be derived from the lucha libre wrestler Fray Tormenta-also the inspiration for Crasher Wake-whose name translates as "Friar Storm"."
An extra thing on the Plain Badge: the design closely resembles a road sign, fitting for the most urbanised city in the region.
Specifically a warning sign found in the U.S. and Australia.
Love the videos! Love the references for Mahogany Effie AND King Yemma!! ❤ Keep up the fun and enjoy the work!
Glad to know that he's a DBZA fan. King Yemma (a.k.a. Enma Dai-Ou) will talk your ear off about his mahogany desk before he proceeds to do his job.
I love these badges. They really please me the most aesthetically with their colorful and cartoonish designs 😊
Awesome video. I'm excited to hear you say you'll be continuing the series. Also, the Gen 2 cities are named after colors and plants, not colors and trees, as Violet, Azalea, and Goldenrod are flowers.
i kinda miss the way the badges had unique names
since sword and shield its just "Insert Type name" badge
the last original badge was the Iceberg Badge in XY
10 YEARS AGO
Storm is also a quick and sudden assault on a defended position "storming the castle gates"
I'm shocked that Whitney early connection to baseball was not mention in this video.
You know. With the badge essentially being a baseball plate. And her being shown with baseball gear in early artworks.
And even know her design is still low key a baseball uniform. And Milktank turning into a ball.
I’m pretty sure I didn’t even realize that Kanto was apart of Crystal as a kid 😅 I was so engrossed in the new mechanics and the fact that I got to play as a girl
You should do a video explaining Miltanks lore! 😂 it's my fave Pokémon and I'm surprised you haven't already covered that Pokémon. I subscribed just to ask this❤
When I found out that the Whitney was originally going to be baseball themed, I started to see her badge as a baseball diamond.
Pokemon Gold Silver when going back to Kanto, still blows my mind today.
Thank you Mr. Iwata. One of many reasons why I loved you man
10:18 hey Roy's grandpa in horizons is Pryce. Just look at Pryce's original sprite.
i always thought "rising" meant rising from a deep slumber as dragons are often depicted sleeping alot, AND YOU CAN GET YOUR SLEEP TOO WITH HELIX!!
I was waiting for the DBZA reference when you got to Mahogany Town😂
for the fighting gym I do also like the "shock badge" more.... cuz it just make me think of "shock and awe" as in being in shock and awe... OF THESE PECKS!!!
1:15 or an ice cube in an ICEometric projection
To me growing up I always thought the rising badge looked like a skull
In universe the Olivine city gym used to be a rock type gym, and when you look at it like that the mineral badge makes sense, they just haven't changed it yet.
I realized that the mineral badge looks like a polished, flat Boulder badge
God the way you just went "oh" when you pulled the cartridge out at the start just destroyed me for some reason lmao
I normally put my phone down during the sponsor part of videos but watching yours keeps me entertained as I watch the entire video...
Kudos to you for that 😁
if I remember correctly, I think the bug badge is in generation five with burgh.
Burgh's badge was the insect badge. Viola from Kalos had the bug badge, as well as Katy from Paldea, although I'm reluctant to count the generation 8 onwards gym leaders since as a whole badges are now named the same as the type.
I love that even Bugsy, the bug master, would rather use a Metapod and a Kakuna than a Ledyba.
Given that his Scyther is best known for using Fury Cutter, starting with two Pokémon pupae lulls you into a false sense of an easy win.
I like how you say Mahogany like King Yemma.
Thank you for the DBZA King Yemma reference.
"MAHOGANY!" -Enma Dai-Ou a.k.a. King Yemma
Hear me out... The Plain Badge is a diagonal slice of individually wrapped cheese. Whitney is a cow trainer...
Kraft(TM) Singles Badge
5:47 Do you ever know that you’re my rhombus? You are the rhombus in my wings
8:14 the force badge, the thrust badge, the power badge.
It's called the Shock Badge in Japan because YOU WA SHOCK!!!
7:54 Here I am! / Rock me like a hurricane!
The Storm badge or "Shock" badge might have to do with dynamic punch being in this gen for the first time! In Japanese versions, its called exploding punch. So it could be the shock of such explosive power.
King Yemma and Effie Trinket in one video?! I would have never expected it!
Huh, not once did I ever question the badges. But now I’m glad you made this. Thank you
1:41 there it is, he said it!
Video suggestion: explain the japanese names of the Scarlet & Violet mon
Nice DBZA shout out. Don't know where the other reference is from? Can someone let me know
It's from Hunger Games
"i'm six i don't know what a zephyr is"
this guy never had a mythology phase
05:55 that is a square not a rhomboid. all sides are equal to each other in length at 90 degree intercetions
I've a question, could Rhydon be related to Nidoqueen and Nidoking?
Every pokemon comes from mew so yes
Possibly, both are rhino like bipedal monsters
What abut Scyther & Kabutops?
@@tetravega567They are more then likely not related
@@luukzilla1519 Given that Kabutops likely existed back in the Devonian, it came before Scyther who given its order first appeared in the Cretaceous.
I know this isn't about the Gym Leaders and just the badge, but it really blew my mind when I heard the word "Rigor Mortis" for the first time and thought "IS THAT WHY THE GHOST GYM LEADER WAS NAMED MORTY?!" Now I have same reaction today learning that Falkner's name is a pun on Falconer.
More or less. It's actually derived from the same root word "mort" which is French I believe for dead or death. That's where we also get words like mortician and mortuary.
@@lordofninjas1 As Martin Prince points out, the Latin word "morire" means "to die"
i dont know why i love these badge episodes so much
at 0:57 he pulls the cartridge out and jumps implying he took it out while it was on, however with the original GameBoy he couldn't, there was a latch that filled the corner gap on the original cartridges that stopped you pulling it out while the system was on
bro I had to take a second to process how insanely clever the Plain Badge triple-meaning is. Guess it's not plain at all
I laugh out loud literally every single time you say it all comes together
The glacier badge should've been a stylized snowflake with 6 points instead of a hexagon
About the olivine part it could be shown as a reference for jasmine being new to steel.
You know. Being green as a novice to something?
one thing i like about the glacier badge is you can also read it as a cube viewed from an angle. like. like a. like an ice cube. heh.
Good, you got both King Yama and Effie in there with Mahogany Town.
"MAHOGANY!" -Enma Dai-ou a.k.a. King Yemma.
I have never played these older games, so I find these gym badges interesting. ^_^
You're missing out. They're pretty good.
My desk is made out of Mahogany. Mahogany
1:32 Does Lugia have feathers? In the 2nd episode of Pokémon Journeys Goh described the skin on Lugias back as rough.
If it didn't, the Silver Wing wouldn't exist.
Interesting ! In french, most of the name are similar, if not pure translation, such as :
Le badge Zéphyr (Zephyr badge)
Le badge Plaine (Plain badge)
Le badge Brume (Fog badge)
Le badge Minéral (Mineral badge)
Le badge Glacier (Glacier badge)
and finally, Le badge Lever (Rising badge)
The meaning may be slightly different, but you get it, we have two different ones though, the bug and fighting ones
The hive badge is called "Le badge Essaim" aka, swarm badge which...well, doesn't make much more sense I guess ?
The storm badge is called "Le badge Choc" ! Which is literally...Shock badge ? Or Impact badge, which can carry the same water meaning in a way, but seems to suit more the fighting one, after all, when you get punched...you get shocked ! Or it does an impact !
Also looks a lot like Chuck ironically
01:44 Let’s not forget, that
That Lugia’s Feather Kinda looks like a Badge. Like
From the Anime.
Maybe a bit of a stretch but getting the Rising Badge from Clair, the Dragon type gym leader could be a nod to the classic Shoryuken move, which translates to "rising dragon fist"
the Sephiroth badge
Mewtwo: Mother...
Ditto: Re... un... ion...
Mew: !?
The plain badge is straight up the same trafficsign that inform a 'main road' in my country
Lockstin, the Plain Badge is a diamond because Whitney loves softball. It represents a base.
The Lockstin badge would just be a little skull.
I think the Steel Badge is supposed to be some kind of mirror.
Maybe, some older mirrors were made of metals like bronze from what I understand. Though it looks more like it's metal that's been refined out of the Boulder Badge, since it's the same shape and rocks often contain metals within them.
Looking at the badge closely, the Plain Badge can resemble a baseball diamond and Whitney dresses in a softball jersey.
I saw someone mention badge names in German so get this: badges in French
1. Badge Zéphyr (same as English)
2. Badge Essaim (Swarm Badge)
3. Badge Plaine (plain as in a grass field, it doesn't have the other implications that Plain does in English)
4. Badge Brume (Haze Badge, pretty similar in meaning as Fog Badge tbh)
5. Badge Choc (Hit/Strike/Shock Badge)
6. Badge Minéral (same as English)
7. Badge Glacier (same as English)
8. Badge Lever (similar meaning to Rising Badge, lever -> the act of getting up or rising)
I guess Storm Badge could also be a sneaky reference to Lugia, since Lugia's dex states that it can cause 40-day lasting powerful storms by flapping its wings and Lugia tends to live in the ocean and given the location of the gym's town...
Yes I know Lugia isn't a Fighting type but ya never know
1:55 And Bugzy Doesn’t have
The Gen 2 Bugs Ladybug or
Ladian … But Scither Metapod
And what ever else.
I literally have notifications on for Hoenn since it’s my favorite
One should take notice on how in the lore, it makes sense to call it mineral badge since the gym was formly a rock type gym before steel type was discovered.
im currently addicted to soul silver, so this is perfect timing lol
Who else knew what a zephyr was by the time they got into Pokémon because they recalled Owl referring to the Blustery Day as that in Winnie the Pooh?
It can't just be me, can it? There's no way everyone else missed Disney's biggest source of merchandise in its animated canon, right?!
Also, gotta love how it only just hit on me that the Plain Badge's name has more than one meaning moments before you explained it. Never thought of it before, but the badge is surprisingly well designed for being so simple!